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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is the one you referred to earlier?
     3        A.  Yes, sir, yes.
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     5   MS. STEEL:  Did the Smith Street Residents Association oppose
     6        the opening on Royal Avenue?
     7        A.  No.
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     9   Q.   It did not, right.  She says in this letter that the reason
    10        the Smith Street Residents Association opposed the opening
    11        of the McDonald's was because it would create environment/index.html">litter
    12        problems; is that correct?
    13        A.  That is what the letter says.
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    15   Q.   In your memory of Smith Street Residents Association
    16        meetings, is that one of the reasons why the Residents
    17        Association opposed the opening of McDonald's?
    18        A.  Yes, one of the reasons.
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    20   Q.   She says that "environment/index.html">litter is currently a major problem" -- that
         was in November 1993?
    22        A.  That is right.
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    24   Q.   Do you think that in November 1993 it was a major problem?
    25        A.  Yes.
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    27   Q.   Would you agree with the sentiments expressed where she
    28        says:  "Kindly send some McDonald's staff twice a day to
    29        clear up your disgusting rubbish"?
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    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Put it another way, would you have liked that
    32        to happen?
    33        A.  I thought it was happening 36 times a day.
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    35   Q.   Yes.
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    37   MR. MORRIS:  But was it happening?
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You would like it to happen more than twice a
    40        day?
         A.  I would like it to happen more than twice a day, sir.
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    43   MS. STEEL:  Right.
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    45   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, if you look at 795, there is a letter from
    46        Gordon Taylor, Royal Hospital Ward Residents Association,
    47        17th September 1994, in which he is calling for some kind
    48        of McDonald's committee to be set up to co-ordinate legal
    49        action or setting up a fund.  Do you remember this
    50        situation at all? 
    51        A.  Yes, I was at the meeting. 
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    53   Q.   Do you want to say what your recollection is?  You can read
    54        that letter to yourself, if you like.
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    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me just catch up.  Yes?
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    58   MR. MORRIS:  Do you remember that situation?  Can you just say
    59        something, a little bit about it, what happened?
    60        A.  Well, as a matter of fact, I drafted the letter.